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Housing Estates in the Baltic CountriesMass Housing and Extensive Urbanism in the Baltic Countries and Central/Eastern Europe: A Comparative Overview

Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries: Mass Housing and Extensive Urbanism in the Baltic... [ThisCentral/Eastern Europe chapter provides a comparative overview of the post-war housing programmes of the Central and Eastern European post-war socialist states, arguing that they, like the BalticsBaltic, were in some ways distanced from the highly standardised orthodoxies of mainstream Soviet mass housingMass housing. With the aim of underlining the extreme diversity of the political/organisational and architectural solutions of mass housingMass housing within Central and Eastern EuropeCentral and Eastern Europe, the chapter demonstrates that while public housing was generally dominant in most parts of the region, this concealed wide variations, from the programmes of PolandPoland and East GermanyEast Germany, dominated from the late 50s by large, powerful cooperatives, to the highly decentralised, even anarchic system in YugoslaviaYugoslavia and the prominence of home-ownership in both HungaryHungary. See also Budapest and BulgariaBulgaria. Architecturally, the conservative policies of street-façade monumental architectureArchitecture that prevailed inNicolae Ceauşescu Ceauşescu’s RomaniaRomania contrasted very strikingly with the idiosyncrasies that sprouted elsewhere, ranging from the sinuous and extraordinarily long ‘falowiec’ (wave-form) blocks of GdańskGdańsk and PoznańPoznań to the wildly variegated design solutions of the various ‘blok’ sections of Novi BeogradNovi Beograd. The chapter compares these varied patterns closely with those of the BalticsBaltic, to demonstrate that the latter were not alone within the socialist bloc in their individuality and intermittently ‘western’ sensibilities. ] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Housing Estates in the Baltic CountriesMass Housing and Extensive Urbanism in the Baltic Countries and Central/Eastern Europe: A Comparative Overview

Part of the The Urban Book Series Book Series
Editors: Hess, Daniel Baldwin; Tammaru, Tiit
Glendinning, Miles
Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries — Aug 28, 2019
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019. This book is an open access publication.
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978-3-030-23391-4
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117 –136
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10.1007/978-3-030-23392-1_6
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[ThisCentral/Eastern Europe chapter provides a comparative overview of the post-war housing programmes of the Central and Eastern European post-war socialist states, arguing that they, like the BalticsBaltic, were in some ways distanced from the highly standardised orthodoxies of mainstream Soviet mass housingMass housing. With the aim of underlining the extreme diversity of the political/organisational and architectural solutions of mass housingMass housing within Central and Eastern EuropeCentral and Eastern Europe, the chapter demonstrates that while public housing was generally dominant in most parts of the region, this concealed wide variations, from the programmes of PolandPoland and East GermanyEast Germany, dominated from the late 50s by large, powerful cooperatives, to the highly decentralised, even anarchic system in YugoslaviaYugoslavia and the prominence of home-ownership in both HungaryHungary. See also Budapest and BulgariaBulgaria. Architecturally, the conservative policies of street-façade monumental architectureArchitecture that prevailed inNicolae Ceauşescu Ceauşescu’s RomaniaRomania contrasted very strikingly with the idiosyncrasies that sprouted elsewhere, ranging from the sinuous and extraordinarily long ‘falowiec’ (wave-form) blocks of GdańskGdańsk and PoznańPoznań to the wildly variegated design solutions of the various ‘blok’ sections of Novi BeogradNovi Beograd. The chapter compares these varied patterns closely with those of the BalticsBaltic, to demonstrate that the latter were not alone within the socialist bloc in their individuality and intermittently ‘western’ sensibilities. ]

Published: Aug 28, 2019

Keywords: Prefabrication; Mass housing; Multi-storey flats; Modernism; City planning

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